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...probably fewer than 50 percent of registered Massachusetts Democrats will vote today. Among those, students will make up a tiny fraction of the electorate, and Harvard students an even smaller number. Most students don’t bother to register in the state where they attend school, and only a small number of people who are registered in another state go to the trouble of sending absentee ballots...
With these changes, there would be a huge rise in voter turnout. Once developed, the cost to the government to use I-voting and phone voting would be a fraction of the cost of traditional methods...
Even so, in those seven years, the inspection teams were never sure of their accounting. While they were in Iraq, Saddam admitted to just a fraction of his missile and chemical stores and falsely denied the existence of a biological program. After Saddam finally quit cooperating in 1998 and the U.S. and Britain bombarded Iraq for four days, the inspectors were gone for good, immensely disturbed by what they had not found. Yet they knew, based on discrepancies in Iraqi documents they had seized, that Iraq still hid 6,000 chemical bombs. They discounted Iraq's contention that...
Unlike vulture funds, which buy entire portfolios for a fraction of their worth, Heise, Rempt and partner Hans van Bennekom want to use their business acumen and contacts to save the companies in venture firms' portfolios. "The idea is to look at companies on a case-by-case basis and see if we can get them to perform," says Rempt. If a business cannot be turned around, SecondWind will use its contacts to try to find a buyer for the assets. SecondWind this month attracted its first customer - one of the largest Dutch captive funds, and one that preferred...
There are no reliable estimates of spending on alternative marketing, in part because agencies and clients rarely admit to using stealth methods. Certainly, it represents a small fraction of the estimated $236 billion that will be spent this year on traditional print, broadcast, radio and online advertising in the U.S. But industry experts say that outlays for alternative campaigns are growing rapidly--and that Madison Avenue has little choice but to seek new ways to push products. After tightening their belts during the recession, clients are increasingly wondering what exactly their hefty ad budgets are getting them and "demanding greater...